The Full “Fantasy Eurovision Song Contest” Catastrophe Playlist 9/5/09

This week’s show is all about what might have been, the road not taken, the “you’re dreamin” approach to life. In it, I wondered aloud and on CD about what some of the participants in the Eurovision Song Contest might do if they let all their creative juices off the leash!

The result….not a single song with a title like “I wanna love you all night, my baby and make this dream reality and a heaven on earth” (Read out loud in an Icelandic/Bulgarian accent).

See what you think… Some familiar names, some devolutionary suggestions for the UK (and a rude one), some WW2 retro-irony and….some great tunes!! And don’t forget that there’s heaps of Eurovision Song Contest gear on the “TFC Link Of The Day”. Give it a click…. And next week: the ESC is celebrated in TFC style. And don’t forget the Caffe Latte part of the Eurovision equation

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Lay Down – Jimmy Somerville (UK)

Bo Mambo – Yma Sumac (ESP)

Verejushki – Volga (RUS)

Fado Portuges De Nos – Mariza (POR)

The Pheasant Plucker’s Song – The Barrow Poets (UK)

Chou Musicale (Musical Cabbage) (FRA)

Trois Petits Points – Paris Combo

Au Port – Camille

Feuilles Mortes – Mabel Mercer

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Ista Slika – Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkester (CROATIA)

Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home – Sinead O’Connor (IRL)

Irgendwo, Irgendwann – Gotz Alsmann (GER)

Blue Drag – New Orleans Jazz Vipers (FRA if the French had hung around in New Orleans!!)